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Yevgeny Baratynsky

Died in 1844

Yevgeny Baratynsky (1800-1844) was expelled in 1816 from the Corps of Pages in Saint Petersburg for having stolen, together with a comrade, a snuffbox and five hundred roubles. Having joined the Guard in 1819 as a common soldier, he then served several years in Finland, where he wrote his first long poem. Married in 1826 and permitted to leave the army, he lived from then on in Moscow and on the Muranovo estate, published books that the public received coldly, and died in Naples in 1844, during a journey in Italy.

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